The debate over what standardized tests public school students will take this upcoming school year is still not settled, despite a meeting between Governor Bobby Jindal and Education Superintendent John White.  Jeff Palermo reports…

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The governor was also in Vacherie yesterday to announce that a China-based company is coming to the Mississippi River in St. James Parish.  He says it’s a methanol manufacturing facility that’s expected to create 350-400 permanent jobs.  They are set to begin construction in 2016.

Wet weather is expected over much of the state over the next couple of days.  Donald Jones, with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, says this week’s rare cold front is moving out of the state and a low pressure system is moving in from Texas…

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Much of the state is under a Flash Flood Watch through this afternoon and there are reports of flooding on several roadways.  There are also reports of weather related power outages throughout the state.

A 54-year-old Church Point man is dead after being pinned under a vehicle after a jack malfunctioned.  The Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office says Paul Brent Bourgeois was removing the front tires on a vehicle when the jack failed.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Slidell Police Department has made an arrest in the strange case of a man who stole a company check to pay for a prostitute while at work.  Detective Daniel Seuzeneau says video surveillance caught the entire incident.  He says the cameras caught 24-year-old Charles West talking with a female customer and then the two went into a back room of the business where the woman performed oral sex on West.  Afterwards, West took a company check, forged the manager’s signature, and gave it to the woman.  Seuzeneau says Slidell Police were waiting for West when he arrived at work Wednesday morning…

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Seuzeneau says this case just boggles his mind.